The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There about lNDWD OF JneHl uSt'l Ill OdPe'ii'
of which 10000 are found in Toxic alone.
A NEW method of making car wheels is in use
in Wiliesbarre, Pa, by which three men VINO
formerly made eighteen car wheels day can
now make one every minute or 40 day. a
steel case is used instead of one made OF sand
and when removed the wheel is at once ready
for the axle
DENNIS CLARK, of Niles township Berrien
county, Mich, has lived there twenty-five years
and during that time has never been over four
miles away from home. The other gay ne
wanted to cali on a neghbor who had lived
within two miles of him for years, and actually
had to inquire the way.
A RoscoMMoN COUNTY CMich) farmer owns
rooster that chums with big black snake. The
two hunt together for their food and assist each
other in securing it, frogs and insects belhg
their particular prey and the fowl dong most
of the hard work. Whenever he runs across a
particularly fine fat frog he will strut about 1t,
ruffle his feathers and cluck in order to call his
sinuous friend.
A GLASGOW engineering firm has constructed
what is said to be the largest planning machine
in the world, especially intended and designed
to be employed in connection with the prepare
ton of steel plates for the Orders of railway
bridge in New South Wales. The weight OF tins
vast machine is said to be some thirty-tive tons
and it is capable of planning the edge of plate
IS feet in length by feet wide.
ISAAC TUCKER, an almost helpless cripple,
whose hair and beard have been whitened by SO
winters, was found in the Grand Central passen-
ger station at Cincinnati and taken to the cen,
trail police station. There he displayed deed
for a lot in the st. Andrews Bay Company s
grant in Florida, for which he had paid 81, and
he had hobbled all the way from New Castle,
Ind, to verify rumor that the company was a
fraud.
A SHORT time ago a Basuto of South Africa,
while blowing up what used to be the camp of
the Cape Mounted Rifles at NIorosi'S Mountain,
found a bottle of French brandy which had been
buried and forgotten by some over provident
trooper. 1t is needless to add that the BaSuto
promptly drank the contents of the bottle, and
with a faith that is almost sublime he buried
the empty bottle in the ground again with the
hope OF getting a crop of full bottles next year.
THE Geneva Town Council is agitating for the
institution of a crematory furnace for the Can
ton on the scale of that so successfully worked
at Milan. NJ. Empeyta, the chief mover in the
matter has put forth a defence of the practice
against common objections. Mineral poiSonS,
he maintains. are as easily detachable after Gre
nation as after burial, while premature crema-
ton is avoided at Milan by sending the corpse
to the furnace not sooner than eight days after
death
T. II. Milane, proprietor of the Moore House
at North Branch, Mich has dog that goes up-
stairs and rings at every door along the hall,
bangs the bell against the door and barkS until
he gets a response. At noon he takes the bell
through the village to notify the bOarders that
il is time to eat, and whenever he comes across
a bOarder he will not cease ringing until he
hears the ''All right, Turk for which he is
waiting The dog also does much of the mar
keting.
THE people of Beaver Canon, Idaho. had a
picturesque celebration of the Fourth. John
Hancock read the Declaration of Independence
and Henry Clay delivered the Grafton. In the
procession the States were represented by thir-
ty-eight young women in white mother hub
bards, mounted on black horses. One hundred
wOOd-chOppers marched four abreast, carrying
their axes, and the city fathers rode in a big
lumber wagon drawn by twelve yoke of red
oxen, driven by the Goddess of Liberty In the
evening there was an exhibition of fireworks
with a savage war dance obligato performed by
100 ShOshone and Bannock Indians.
THE biggest missionary enterprise on
record" said London Truth, has been accom-
plished by the Rev. George Muller founder of an
orphanage at Bristol who has just returned
from a preaching tour round the world The
interchangeable evangelist has been absent ten
years, during which time he has travelled over
10000 miles, extending through the United
States, New Zealand, Australia, the Malayan
Peninsula, China, Japan and the Journey home
through Europe. What makes the feat really
extraordinary is that Mr. Muller is now nearly
SO years of age, and is reported to have finished
in splendid condition. His united congrega-
tionS during the tour amout to over a million
persons"
IT is related that Eugene Delacroix, the
famous painter. thinking that the head of Baron
James Rothschd would make a splendid head
for bcggar asked the eminent flnancier to sit
as a model. Consent was granted. While the
artist was engaged on the canvas one of the
pupils entered and told DelacroiX that that was
an ideal beggar. When Delacroix was not look
tod
coin in Rothschild's hands, for which the
banker nodded his thanks He learned that the
young painter had very little money and so he
wrote him that the coin he had given him bad
borne interest and that if he called at the
Rothschild banking house he would receive
10000 francs.
THERE is a suit at present on trial in Balti-
more court under the majestic and impressive
title of william II. Perkins, Worthy Ruler of
st. Thomas Lodge, against Augustus Thomas,
Grand Royal King of the United and Consoli-
dated Order of Brothers and Sisters and Sons
and Daughters of the knights of Four Men and
the Members of the Supreme Grand ROYAL
House. The suit grows out of the suspension
of st. Thomas Lodge, and it is asserted that the
dusky king when he suspended the lodge de
clared that his edct was like that of the Modes
and Persans, irrevocable, and that he ''woudn' {
take back one word of it, not even for President
Cleveland, or event if Grant would come out of
his grave to make formal appeal to him.
A PROMINENT British officer, says Life, Lon
don, dining recently at Hawarden for the first
time, ventured to traverse a very erroneous YER
sion of recent occurrences which fell from the
lips of his host Thereupon Mr. Gladstone
once remarkably fine, though now haggard and
restless eyes, began TO glare, he knit his brows
and surveyed his audacious guest with glance
of whitening contempt. But ere his anger could
find vent in words an intimate friend of the
family averted the impending storm by inter
posing with an adroit explanation of the visitor
obvious mi5conception, as he chose to term
IL. While the explanation was still in progress
a footman slipped into the guests hand scrap
OF paper, on which Mrs Gladstone had hastily
scrubbed the words, Il regret that / forgot to
forcwarn you that Mr.. Gladstone is never con
tradicted in this house.
THE Cologne Gazette publishes communion
ton stating that the English are now construct
ing new strategical route between India and
Afghanstan by the Sakh Sarwar Pass opposite
Dera Ghazi Khan. The works are directed by a
German, Baron Bibru who has taken for his
model the celebrated Alpine roads in Austria
II is hoped that in the coming autumn this new
road, ten miles long, will have been completed
across the Suleiman, hitherto deemed inaccessi-
BILE. The road has n slope Of 100 yards in three
and one-halt miles, or about one In five The
highest point of the road is about 300 feet and
the surrounding heights are 1000 feet The Sc
curty Of the route and the adjacent country will
be ntrusted to n militia. This has hitherto
numbered only 500 men, but now all the male
population from PeShawur TO Scnde are 10 be
drafted into it, This is now possible through
the people having settled down. aud now, con-
cludes the Cologne paper, The passes will be.
come as safe as the high roads Of India
q Al.